Food

Big Beer Brewers Like Anheuser-Busch Are Drunk on Greed

By Jim Hightower / AlterNet

How the beer lobby is taking advantage of addiction.

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Occupying Farmland for Organic Food and Fairness Exposes University Elitism

By Diana Pei Wu / Race, Poverty & the Environment

5 Ways to Make America Less Fat

By David Sirota / Salon

Hostess Brands Uses Bankruptcy Court to Screw Workers Out of Pensions, Benefits

By Bruce Vail / In These Times

Over 100 Children a Year Die Working On Farms: Why Do Prominent Right-Wingers Fight Safety Regulations?

By Mariya Strauss / AlterNet

Yuck: Our Seafood Is Loaded with Unspeakably Gross Pollutants

7 Highly Disturbing Trends in Junk Food Advertising to Children

Good News For Animal Lovers: Factory Farming's Days May Be Numbered

Food

The Terrifying Truth About America's Obesity Epidemic

Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

One in 5 Kids Is Obese, Yet Congress Is More Concerned With Protecting Profits Than Kids' Health

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

How Corporations Like Monsanto Have Hijacked Higher Education

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

10 Amazing Discoveries That Should Be Worth Millions

Liz Langley / AlterNet

Confessions of a Cheating Vegan

Donald Kaul / Other Words

School "Lunch Ladies" Fight for Better Food for Students--And Better Jobs

Kari Lydersen / In These Times

Are Olive Oil and Canola Oil Interchangeable?

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

KFC Ordered to Pay $8.3 Million to Australian Girl Paralyzed After Eating a Twister Wrap

AFP

Gulf Coast Waters Closed to Shrimping

Joieau / Daily Kos

Occupy v. Whole Foods? Activists Take Over Land Slated for Development and Start a Farm

Jeff Conant / AlterNet

Is Vermont's Governor Surrendering to Monsanto?

Ronnie Cummins, Will Allen / AlterNet

Where No City Has Gone Before: San Francisco Will Be World's First Zero-Waste Town by 2020

Sven Eberlein / AlterNet

2012 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Risk Their Lives

Environment News Service

Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives

Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Cheerleading for Monsanto? The Shocking Lack of Difference Between Oxford University Press and Fox News

Frances Moore Lappe / AlterNet

The Rise and Fall of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers

Nelson Lichtenstein / Dissent Magazine

What If We Stopped Freaking Out About Climate Change?

Sven Eberlein / AlterNet

Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont if Legislators Pass a Bill Requiring GMO Food to Be Labeled

Ronnie Cummins, Will Allen / AlterNet

Politicians Swallow Pink Slime to Prove Their Allegiance to Corporations

Leo Gerard / AlterNet

Why Our Laws Need to Catch up to the Local Food Revolution

Bill Wenzel / Other Words

Why Are People Dying to Bring You Dinner? The Shocking Facts About Our Food System

Christopher D. Cook / AlterNet

Forget the Farm Bill: Where We Should Set Our Sights This Year For Real Change

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Owning Pigs a Felony in Michigan? Big Ag-Inspired Law Targets Small Farms

Corey Hill / AlterNet

Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Trying to Pass off to Kids as Science

Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Making $2.13 an Hour and the Boss Skims Tips? How We Can Fight Exploitation in Restaurants

Erik Loomis / AlterNet

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